Crusades · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Massacre at Béziers (1209)
On the Crusades map as “Béziers”
22 Jul 1209 — a crusade proclaimed against Christian heretics in Languedoc sacks the town and kills thousands, believers and Cathars alike. “Kill them all — God will know his own,” a chronicler reports. Crusade turned inward. A site of memory.
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- Crusades beyond the Holy Land (chapter 9 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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